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Flood season began in April in Tajikistan, but this year Malika, 51, mother of six, was ready to protect her village. As water and mud began flowing down the hills that surrounding her village of Shokhindoz in the Rasht Valley, Malika organized a team of fifteen women and two men on a three-day operation...

Super Typhoon Haiyan, labeled the biggest storm ever recorded, began its life as a cluster of thunderstorms in the warm northwest Pacific waters of the Federated States of Micronesia. Originally designated 31W, meteorological services began issuing alerts about a tropical depression tracking west-northwest...

Asian countries and regional organizations are playing an increasingly prominent role in the humanitarian response to major natural and man-made disasters, Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said at the start of a 12-day mission to the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s...